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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Zakk on October 20, 2003, 09:26:47 pm
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This news snippit has got me more e-mail then pretty much anything I can recall. So I thought I might add it here in case someone else is thinking about "what my mame setup needs".
One guy wanted me to make a huge control panel that you could sit at with super-oversized controls for this :)
Projector: Panasonic PTLC55U LCD
Screen: (I dunno got it through the local school board) 8 foot X 8 foot.
Results: best game of Asteroids deluxe EVER. Was like playing in a movie house.
Oh, and movies are kickass on it, I've had the thing for a couple of months now, and just can't get over the thing. Indiana Jones collection out tomorrow (whoo hoo!)
http://www.mameworld.net/massive/news/news.html
(October 16 news)
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The words "died and gone to heaven" come to mind.
Anyway, back to my 17" fishbowl and sidewinder control pad....
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8 foot stargate yum.
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Look, I already told you...Stargate was impossible on a 19" screen, IT DOESN'T GET ANY EASIER ON THIS SCREEN!
You screen groupie you :-*
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what games are those on the bottom right and bottom middle ?
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Good god man! I can see not knowing Eliminator, but Berzerk?!?!?!
Well, fair enough, I wouldn't know mortal kombat from killer instinct... :)
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I have a video projector too (infocus X1 DLP) its amazzzzzing to watch movies and play video games on. I have yet to try mame or supergun on it as i'm in between homes right now so its packed away.
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I too also have a video projector that is sitting idle in a corner of the basement collecting dust.
Unfortunately it is of the early-80s vintage, and as such, the tubes are getting a bit misty-eyed. It's one of those "doubles as a coffee table" style projectors with about 30 different pots to adjust when you need to recalibrate. Anyone with a projector should, in my opinion, consider hosting a drive-in movie night in their driveway.. I know I'm gonna try it out before the snow hits :)
Great for letterbox-formatted movies, those black bars at the top & bottom, well, they disappear since there is no surrounding tv :)
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it's hard to find words to tell you how much I hate you.
I can't do it.
I'm not a poet. I don't have the words.
I just hate you.
but it's only because i'm not you.
you understand I'm sure... ;)
Allroy
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Did you try anything special with the audio, like echo or DSP effects? A concert hall setting might be nice.... 8)
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Well... all I can say is.....
:o WOW !!! :o
One day, when I grow up, I want to be just like him.... ;D
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I bought one a year ago... but a really old one..
I was going to make it into a pedistal cab.
But I never spent the money on a screen big enought (cost 10x what I got the projector for..). and the projector I got (cheap) (the big old box ones that sit on the floor) can't focus when you get it closer then 9 feet or so...
So it ended up a non-useable for the space I had....
Now I am considering moving it on it's side that will fix a bunch of problems...
but if you think mame was fun on them... FPS show up GREAT on them... really add something to them. I really felt after a minute that I was in the game... and started to make me feel a little...well... nausues (sp?)... a TRUE sign of a technology gone right if you think you might hurl or you feel it when you jump off a 100' cliff!
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I've been known to do this too, I have a full on home theater room, HD capable CRT projector, 8 foot wide 16:9 screen, 7.1 sound etc etc, all running though a Home theater Computer / video processor / scaler.
Arcade games on the big screen rule heheh, though to be honest I still prefer standing at my cab playing.
- Krynos
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hehe, maybe I should get a pic of my friend's place where he has a wide-format HDTV projector with dolby digital, and a hacked x-box playing Mame games with its little controllers.
Hey, you should get these for your pushbuttons in your setup!:
http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/53870100.htm (http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/53870100.htm)
http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/954002xxxxz.htm (http://www.happcontrols.com/pushbuttons/954002xxxxz.htm)
That Mega-Pushbutton is 2.8" diameter!
You can space them apart, and use these to push them:
http://www.happcontrols.com/amusement/acesor/51500100.htm (http://www.happcontrols.com/amusement/acesor/51500100.htm)
It would be like the exact opposite of the Mini-Mame project. Performing a 7-hit combo in MK3 would actually require martial arts training!
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Hehe I could call it 'whack-a-mame' :)
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Just don't play Fantasia with a name like that!
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This is just screaming for Battlezone, Star Wars or Red Baron... or perhaps Pole Position...
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pole postion..... *snicker*